The DCO teams have taken these inventories and used models to construct a broader picture of Earth's total biomass. "Even though these sample sites are but pinpricks around the planet, we've ...
Biomass is organic material from plants and animals. This can be used as a source of energy. By-products from forestry, plants and animal waste from farms, even sewage and some waste from landfill ...
A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.
Marine phytoplankton are fundamental to Earth’s ecology and biogeochemistry. Our understanding of the large-scale dynamics of phytoplankton biomass has greatly benefited from, and is largely ...